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Termites in the House

The Complete Corruption of English Literary Studies as an Academic Discipline

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"Marxist literary critics deserve at least this much credit: they have made a plausible and even a persuasive case for the relevance of economics to literature and literary activity. Economics is a central realm of human activity, and to the extent that literature attempts to deal with human life, it must inevitably come to terms with economic issues.” 

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